LG G Watch

You can play Doom just about anywhere these days, from ATM machines, to graphing calculators, to even inside Doom itself. That means it's gotten boring. We need to spice up this whole FPS game on random devices/appliances thing, and it's time we went with a more modern classic, like Half-Life. Modder Dave Bennett already has the right idea, getting the Valve-made shooter to run on an Android-powered LG G Watch.

Excited over the prospect of getting your Android Wear smartwatch connected even without a smartphone within range? Better start hoping your wearable computer is one of the supported models. Although the upcoming Android Wear update will include the ability for smartwatches to connect via Wi-Fi, it still boils down to whether the device has the hardware capable of doing that. Sadly, despite appearances and spec sheets, not all of them are created equal, and the ones from LG and ASUS will apparently be left out of the Wi-Fi party.

The LG Watch Urbane is not LG's brand new "ready to battle Apple Watch" device coming from nowhere with a metal body. On the contrary. The LG G Watch R was released earlier this year with almost the exact same specifications - but with a plastic body instead of metal. The LG Watch Urbane comes with a metal body and no printing around the edges of its circular face. It has the same display, same processor, and same amount of space inside. And it runs the same software, of course.

Third time's a charm, they say. First there was the G Watch, which was an Android Wear pioneer that was both smart yet plain looking. This was followed by the G Watch R, which tried to add a bit of sophistication with its round face but failed with its bulk. Now LG is trying again with a slightly different name and a slightly different aesthetic but with the same circular body. The LG Watch Urbane is designed to appeal to fashion, both male and female, and it's coming in time for MWC 2015.

If you’re wearing an LG G Watch, you might want to check for an update. A firmware update is currently rolling out for the watch, bringing it to Android Wear 4.4W2. This new firmware for Android Wear brings in offline music support, as well as some GPS functionality. Those are two features Android Wear users have been waiting for for quite some time, and the G Watch — also technically the first Android Wear watch — is the first to get them.

It's been confirmed: the LG G Watch R is launching soon. As they tend to do, LG is launching the wearable in their home country of South Korea first, and will bring it to market on October 14. As for when it will hit the rest of the world — that’s still a bit murky.

With the long anticipated release of Apple Watch this past week, the company behind it put a lot of coal in the engine of the wearable train. For a solid year, the world hemmed and hawed about smartwatches, waiting to see what Apple would do. Now that they’re officially in the mix, here are a few reasons to sit this early-adopter’s segment out — at least for a year.

This week the folks at LG have revealed their first non-square Android Wear device - the LG G Watch R. Unlike their first Android Wear effort in the LG G Watch, this device is aiming for the higher end, bringing on the world’s first round P-OLED display and a complete lack of a notch.

LG's next smartwatch, the LG G Watch R, is set to make its debut at IFA 2014, a freshly-revealed video teaser has confirmed, with a circular design to directly challenge Motorola's wearable. The watch, expected to run Android Wear just as is the case with the existing LG G Watch, is for the most party a mystery in terms of features, but does push LG's design language far further in the direction of more traditional timepieces.

LG's G Watch may only have been on the market since July, but the company is already readying a new LG G Watch 2 for IFA 2014 next month, sources suggest. The new model is said to use an OLED touchscreen rather than the LCD of the first-gen smartwatch, addressing criticisms that the display was less vivid than that of its Samsung Gear Live rival.